Collection Development

A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access. Its sophisticated analyses offer you clarity of vision, the wisdom of experience, and solid advice as you are transported into the 'virtual library environment' with its variety of expectations, service complexities, and information technologies.

Introduction The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Future of the Library Profession May You Live in Interesting Times: The Impact of Revolutions and Shifting Paradigms on Public Services Staff Had We But World Enough, and Time The Study of Subject Strengths: Overlap and National Collecting Patterns: The Uses of the OCLC/AMIGOS Collection Analysis CD and Alternatives to It Distributed Education and Libraries The Politics of the Virtual Collection Library Acquisitions 1986?1995: A Select Bibliography Ownership or Access to Electronic Information--A Selective Bibliography Conclusion Index